Wire

[39mto39g]

We had three main typs of wire we would use,
1. Good old Barb wire, was for tangle foot, String it about 6 to 8 inches above the ground and hook stuff to it that made a noise, like an empty c-rat can with some rocks in it.
2. Constatena wire, Kinda like barb wire only it came in big 3 foot diamiter rolls and had longer barbs, we would roll this out on LZ perimiters, usually had two long rolls on the ground and a third roll on top of the bottom two forming a pirimid sorta. we would hand trip flars and gernades and place claymores inside.
3. razor wire. This was around bace camps for us anyway, sometimes 4 rows high and had all the stuff constatena wire and then they would put 50 gal barrle of Fu-gas or barry a 155 or some equally nasty thing, One time I seen a guy put a block of C-4 in a helmet and fill the helmet with nails, he ran a claymore blasting cap from the helmet to his bunker. . I wouldn't want to be anywhere close to that helmet.

Ron

[DMZ-LT]

Each Track carried 2-3 rolls of #2 and a RPG screen. Carried them outside the track. Made a circle of the tracks and we all made a single row of #2 around us. RPG screen 5 ft in front of track. Have a picture of a track posted in the gallery somewhere in RVN.

[Andy]

We never had barbed wire or razor wire or RPG screens. Lt had 2 or 3 rolls of constatena we usually carried a few more rolls. The one nice thing we did have where the boys who worked with Griz. If we were going to be in a set position for a while, sort of a mini-FSB, Rome plows would dig a hole for the vehicles to that only a foot or so was above ground level. It made the .50 almost a ground level weapon, very effective. Those were the only times we would actually sleep inside our APC's.

Ron, you folks used barbed wire with empty C-rat cans that had a stone or two in them. We got away from that and used T-10 wire with a frag (pin pulled) in a c-rat can tied to a tree or thick bush. Tin cans didn't cost anything, but the frags were free too. Plus, everyone could hear if someone was sneeking up on us.

Stay healthy,
Andy

[39mto39g]

Yes.
You could pull barbed wire real tight between two trees that were 50 feet apart, make it about 6 inches off the ground and several strands, if someone was running at you, they would trip. if they were crawling at you the touching of the wire would rattle the can with rocks.
Hears a good one for ya, I learned this from a LT.
Take a string and go out a hundred feet , or so, from your possition, go around a tree and head back to your possition, stop about 50 or so feet from your possition and tie string to hand gernade , insert gernad with pin pulled into a c-rat can and lay on ground.
Now if you see or hear noise you yank on the string and start pulling, the gernade will go off about at the tree , where they would be hidding. Or at the vary least it would go off going away from you.

Ron

[DMZ-LT]

Someone discovered that fuses from a smoke grenade would fit in a frag - after that we had all kinds of booby traps or could leave one in the NDP or under a dead body and leave

[frisco-kid]

We used to do the same thing with the fuses, especially booby trapping dead bodies. Made body recovery a dangerous assignment for Chuck . Used them on "highway or high speed" trails, and NDPs, also.

[DMZ-LT]

Wish I was seeing you sooner but will settle for the West Coast Rally. It has been a journey. Peace , Bro.